<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,  Thou bear'st thy heavy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61424]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,  Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,   And death unloads thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45627]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her it was the best she'd ever played: 1 for 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation: Everyone's illusion of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of games in a short stretch here, and this should certainly be something that brings out a spark in us, no doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;  The relics of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12803]]></link><description><![CDATA[As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;  The relics of mankind, secure at rest,   Open every window to receive the guest,    And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31354]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, "Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19811]]></link><description><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival in Los Angeles, and one girl told me, 'This movie makes me feel like I can do anything I want.' It shows that even if you don't have the resources, you can use your own will to change things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.  Think each one of this children and his wife,   His home, his parents, living yet and dead.    For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,     And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no Plan B. So you're a little more exposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41568]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no Plan B. So you're a little more exposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151]]></link><description><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40585]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wanted to beat up on the bigger kids; even when he was small, he'd always tag along. When he got to 8 or 9 years old, he was a heck of a basketball player, baseball player. He had drive. He just liked to win. That's his motivation, to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[had everything to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29904]]></link><description><![CDATA[had everything to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135]]></link><description><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely going to be a positive for the bottom line, but we're talking pennies here. All of this is gravy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34321</guid></item></channel></rss>